Down Goes The CPRS, What Now?

Well true to their word, the Coalition has voted down the CPRS for the second time in the Senate and has handed the Government a Double Dissolution trigger.

Politically this is an interesting move. The Liberals have managed to completely muddy the waters with regards to their policy on Climate Change (are they serious about dealing with it? Is climate change scepticism now party policy? Are they just playing to political gain?), while at the same time demonstrating that their party is in no position to be governing itself, let alone the country. This is what they will be bringing to any early election.

To top it off, rather than go with a leader who has positive public profile across a broad base, the Liberals have chosen Tony Abbott, a man who once described himself as the idealogical love child of John Howard and Bronwyn Bishop (thus inflicting a mental imagery on the nation that will take years to scrub away).

There is an ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". Right now, if the Liberals got any more interesting they would explode.